A small experiment in using Rust Structs and calling Rust Functions from Python... By telling Rust to expose stuff to C and telling Python to call C!

Purpose: To assist in learning Rust and Python at the same time.

Primary resource is/was https://bheisler.github.io/post/calling-rust-in-python/ If you are interested I highly recommend checking it out.

CFFI docs: https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Setup

• Install Rust and Python
• run pip install cffi

Testing

• Compile rust with cargo build
• Run python with python test.py

Tested with the following dependency versions

• rustc 1.31.1 (b6c32da9b 2018-12-18)
• cargo 1.31.0 (339d9f9c8 2018-11-16)
• python 2.7.15
• cffi 1.11.5